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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Exactly Who Are These Right-Wingers Who Oppose Obamacare??

I know that “government officials” have tried to portray anyone
who disagrees with them on Obamacare, etc. as “an angry mob” and accuses those
that gather in protest as “having been gathered and orchestrated by GOP
activist groups” … Not so. Those of us who disagree do so because we’ve thought
out our positions. Those that are able to gather in protest may be doing so knowing
that their paychecks are taking a hit ‘cause they’ve taken time off from work,
or they may have been laid off, downsized or whatever. When Leftists gather and
protest (sometimes very violently and with no respect for those they’re
shouting down) they claim “dissent is the highest form of protest” and that we
need to let them be in their attempt to “take down the man.”

When those on the Right gather and protest, we’re nothing but a
paid-for angry mob trying to stir up trouble.

Perception and perspective are everything, aren’t they?

Just thought I’d share this interesting article I found at
HotAir.com that explains “Who We Are”:

There seems to be a bit of confusion among Democrats
about the nature of the opposition to their plans. Maybe I can help clear
things up, by telling them a few things about us.

We’re not paid minions of any corporate interest
or lobby. Most bloggers working to stop the Obama health-care disaster are like
me, writing when they can find the time, because we care about the future of
our country. The same is true of the people showing up at town hall meetings,
and organizing rallies. Some of us are well-dressed in tailored suits. Others
wear jeans and T-shirts. Most of us are dressed in what we wore to work.

Our support for a massive government program does
not increase when you tell us we’re not allowed to ask questions about it.

We’re not racists. We’re also not racialists. We
don’t think a wise Latina is inherently more qualified to do anything
than a wise Asian woman, a wise white woman, or a wise white man. We’re tired
of being fed excuses for high government offices staffed by anything but the
best people for the job. There are too many high government offices, so we’d
like some of Obama’s absurdly incompetent appointees to take their titles with
them when they leave. We remember what it was like when we got rid of the
Clinton mob, so we’ll be conducting inventories on the contents of those
vacated offices, before we turn out the lights and pour cement in the locks.

We don’t like having to fight desperate battles
to save our freedom and future from socialist politicians every ten or twenty
years. We don’t like having our time wasted with trillion-dollar statist
fantasies, when our government is already trillions of dollars in the red.
We’re tired of checking the papers each day, to see which group of us has been
targeted as enemies of the State. We’re growing impatient waiting for the
Democrats to come up with ideas that don’t require their supporters to hate
someone. We’ve had our fill of “progressives” who act as if we’re living in
1909, and none of their diseased policies have ever been tried before.

We believe government should be punished for
failing to live up to the expectations of its citizens, not the other way
around. We don’t think people who destroy thousands of jobs and billions of
dollars in market value should get a pass because they meant well. We’ve had
enough of dodging a massive State that wants to organize, subsidize, penalize,
and divide us. We refuse to pay tithe to a religion we don’t support, including
the official State religion of global warming. We demand honesty, humility, and
transparency from our public servants, no matter how many elections they’ve
won. We won’t settle for making the only important decisions about our futures
in the voting booth, once every couple of years.

We don’t blame people for showing up to grab
their share of a government handout. We blame the people who stole the money
from the rest of us, and put it on the table for them. We don’t think respect
for private property ends at a certain income level, or that only some people
should be applauded for doing their best to get ahead in life. We believe in
the power and righteousness of capitalism, the exchange of goods and services
between free people acting in their own best interests. There is no moral
substitute for it. Every other scheme for governing human affairs amounts to a
few dominating some, to the applause of others. Our freedom is not for sale,
and we reserve the right to defend it from theft.

We don’t invest our hopes in the government. It
is beneath the dignity of free men and women to spend their days hoping a
politician decides to provide for our needs. We face the future, not with
passive and helpless “hope”, but with active and dynamic faith
in ourselves, and our fellow Americans. We are opposed to a political class
that tries to cultivate our hopes by showering us with fear. We don’t trust
politicians with our fortunes, much less with our lives. In fact, we don’t
trust politicians much at all… but we absolutely require them to trust
us.

We do not regard America as the sole country on
Earth that should be forbidden from taking pride in its history, traditions,
and achievements. We reject the notion that celebrating our traditions is an
automatic insult to anyone else. We owe absolutely no apologies to murderous
dictators or unelected tyrants, and we care little for their feelings. We
believe there are many lessons to be learned from our history, by all the
people of the world, and we cannot teach those lessons if we allow ourselves to
be shamed into silence. We will never hesitate to call evil by its proper name,
or give evil men good reasons to fear us.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have a lot of work
to do. There’s an election coming up next year.

This post was
promoted from GreenRoom to HotAir.com.
To see the comments on the original post, look here.

Think About It ...

**GANDALF THE WHITE said...

"Other evils there are that may come...
Yet it is not our part to master all the
tides of the world, but to do what is in
us for the succor of those years wherein
we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields
that we know, so that those who live
after may have clean earth to till. What
weather they shall have is not ours to rule"

**JOHN STUART MILL SAID**...

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by exertions of better men than himself."